From ign.com:

Ever since the self-improvement genre found its place on DS back in 2006 with Brain Age, we’ve seen countless developers try to tap into the same market. Most prevalently, Ubisoft’s "My Coach" series. They have been pumping them out since late 2007, and have now released no fewer than a dozen titles in as many months. Covering everything from vocabulary to weight loss to dog care, Ubisoft provides us with just about everything we need to become balanced, cultured, healthy individuals in our everyday lives. Now that all the important knowledge is out of the way, Ubisoft can start teaching us about all the useless junk that’s left over, this time partnering with Powerhead games to bring us My Fun Facts Coach on the DS. Finally, our lives are complete.

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From marketwatch.com:

Healthwise Information Therapy (Ix) Conversations — multimedia virtual coaching programs that help people make better health decisions — won today the 2008 Outstanding Technology/Innovative Tool Award from DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance.

Ix Conversations can support existing disease management programs, by reaching more patients at a low cost and helping nurse coaches increase patient knowledge and confidence. They can be placed on consumer portals, health plan Web sites, or hospital portals. And Ix Conversations can be prescribed by a health care provider through links in a secure e-mail, or programmed on kiosks in waiting rooms or other locations. Ix Conversations help people find their own unique motivation and path to behavior change on these topics:

–  Getting Active
–  Healthy Eating
–  Healthy Thinking
–  Healthy Weight
–  Quitting Smoking Again
–  Sleeping Well
–  Asthma and Controller Medicines
–  Beta-Blockers to Prevent Another Heart Attack
–  Daily Aspirin to Prevent Heart Attacks
–  Diabetes and A1c testing
–  Dealing With Low Back Pain

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From canada.com:

The Nintendo DS has captured a lot of the coaching software market. The hand-held system, with a double screen, has taken off strongly. In addition to Super Mario and other games, it also has proven a useful platform for companies such as Ubisoft, which produces coaching titles ranging from language tutors to cookery coaches.

Ubisoft’s language-coach series includes not only a vocabulary coach for English speakers called My Word Coach, but has also expanded the series into Spanish and French. My Word Coach features a range of games designed to help you improve your vocabulary.

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From sfgate.com:

“Ubisoft’s latest Nintendo DS game can hardly be called a game.

My Stop Smoking Coach with Allen Carr breaks ground in using gaming hardware and software to tackle a particularly troublesome real-world personal challenge.

But the game, due this month, is just the latest in a growing tide of new titles, mostly Nintendo DS games, that help players achieve a personal goal or obtain a usable skill. The list includes My Weight Loss Coach, My SAT Coach, My Japanese Coach, What’s Cooking? With Jamie Oliver, Let’s Yoga and Let’s Pilates.

Call it self-help gaming.”

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From businesswire.com:

“Today Ubisoft announced that My SAT Coach with The Princeton Review has shipped to retailers nationwide and is available exclusively for the Nintendo DS™ system. Developed in Ubisoft’s Montreal studio and in partnership with The Princeton Review, the video game will help students prepare for the SAT exam with timed drills and mini-games where scores are tracked and the player is given recommendations on how to improve testing performance. With more than 2,000 new practice questions and two diagnostic exams, My SAT Coach with The Princeton Review is an invaluable test preparation tool.”

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From kotaku.com:

“Yourself Fitness creators are suing Ubisoft claiming that the publisher first signed a deal with them to produce My Fitness Coach for the Wii , and then, after missing the Wii Fit launch window, started work on the unrelated My Weight Loss Coach game instead.”

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